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Article: Trader of the lost arts of export INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK Murdo Beaton
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- August 30, 2009
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OPENING up and developing overseas markets has been part of
Scotland's economic lifeblood for as long as Scotland has existed.
The national archives show Robert the Bruce taking a break from
splitting skulls to pen an ingratiating pitch to the merchant guilds
of Germany.
Even within that long perspective, few have been more active and
effective at the sharp end of this national strategy than Murdo
Beaton, international trade executive for Edinburgh Chamber of
Commerce.
Beaton, 65, whose working life has outlasted at least one
nominal "retirement", is seen by colleagues, and by business people
who have sought his help, as one of the unsung heroes of the
Scottish trading economy.
In a long ...